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Shops & retail
The counter is busy. The software should not be.
Kirana, supermart, medical, hardware, garments, mobile, stationery, cosmetics, footwear, books, toys, pet supplies. If you sell things across a counter, this is the day it fits into.
What you get
- Barcode, voice, or neither — Scan with the phone camera or a cheap USB scanner, speak it, or tap a tile
- Batch, expiry and the money in it — Most billing apps stop at a quantity
- The book, without the book — Credit recorded on the bill
- GST that comes out of the till — Because tax was recorded at the point of sale rather than reconstructed later
- Your shop, on the internet — A storefront with your catalogue
A day at the counter
Nothing below is a feature you have to go and find. It is what happens while you serve the queue.
Shutter up, and the till is already right
Yesterday's closing is today's opening, the cash drawer count is on the screen, and anything that failed to sync overnight went up the moment the phone found signal. Nothing to reconcile by hand.
Six people in the queue and a customer who does not know the brand
Scan the barcode, or say what it is. Voice billing takes Hindi, Bhojpuri, Marathi, Tamil and eight more, so a boy at the counter who cannot type fast can still bill fast. Weights and loose quantities work the way you say them.
Sharma-ji takes it on the book
Udhaar goes on his khata as part of the same bill, not into a separate register. His balance, his history and the last reminder you sent are one tap away, and the reminder itself goes on WhatsApp with a UPI link he can pay from.
The strip that expires in eleven days
For a medical or anything with a shelf life: batches go out first-expiry-first, and what is about to lapse is on the counter screen before you sell it — not in a report you read at the end of the month, by which time it is a loss.
The distributor's man arrives
Purchase entry against the order you raised, batch and expiry captured, landed cost worked out, and stock moves the moment you accept. Short supply is short supply, not a mystery next week.
Close
Day book, cash counted against expected, GST already sitting in the right buckets because it went there at the point of sale, and tomorrow's reorder list built from what actually moved rather than what you remember moving.
What you get, in shop language
Named the way a shop names things, because a feature nobody recognises is a feature nobody uses.
Barcode, voice, or neither
Scan with the phone camera or a cheap USB scanner, speak it, or tap a tile. The master catalogue already knows most Indian FMCG barcodes, so a new shop is not typing in two thousand items before it can sell one.
- Loose and weighted items, in the units you say them in
- Held bills, so a customer can wander off mid-purchase
- Thermal print, or a WhatsApp bill with no printer at all
Batch, expiry and the money in it
Most billing apps stop at a quantity. A medical, a bakery and a cosmetics shop all lose money in the same place: stock that is technically present and commercially dead.
- FEFO — first to expire is first to be sold
- Expiry alerts on the counter screen, not in a monthly report
- Wastage and adjustment with a reason, so shrinkage has a cause
- Reorder built from days-of-sale, not from a fixed minimum
The book, without the book
Credit recorded on the bill, balances that add up, reminders that go out themselves with a payment link attached, and a clear view of who is slow and who has quietly stopped paying.
GST that comes out of the till
Because tax was recorded at the point of sale rather than reconstructed later, GSTR-1, GSTR-3B and the annual GSTR-9 are generated, not assembled. E-invoice and e-way bill where they apply.
Your shop, on the internet
A storefront with your catalogue, your prices and your UPI, on your own domain if you want one. Customers order, you accept, you deliver or they collect.
More than one counter, more than one shop
Multiple tills on one shop, staff logins with what each role may do, and several branches with stock and books kept apart but reported together.
Shops already shaped for this
Not a list of separate products — one till, configured differently. A medical turns batch and expiry on; a garment shop turns size and colour variants on.
What this will not do for you
It will not stop a customer walking out without paying, and it will not tell you which of your staff is the reason the cash is short. It shows you the gap; closing it is still a human job.
And if your entire operation is one register and a calculator and you are happy, this is more software than you need. Take the billing and the credit book, ignore the rest — it is the same one price either way.
Start with one sentence.
Say what you do. The shop, the items, the prices and the online page set themselves up while you watch — and you correct anything wrong by saying so.
One month, everything included. No card to start. Cancel inside the month and you are not billed.